Interchangable!
Sep. 7th, 2004 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcWell! What a day! I walk in with nothing more planned than getting the journals finally sorted, the shelving and new journals done, and perhaps get the binding started.
Instead, I'm minding my own business, when I get The Tap. Big Bossman says that due to various people on leave, sick, acting elsewhere or getting new jobs, the attaching and mail area is consistently down 2 FTE. To get to keep those FTE, they need someone there until all the sickies et al get back. Someone stable *cuts into own post to grin maniacally ;)* who won't be acting or working outside the department soon. In other words surprise! Interchangable Level One Library Guy has become Interchanged Level One Records Guy. My days are now to be spent attaching documents to files, with the occasional mail opening/mail delivery and pickup run. This'll be good - I can find maybe five places in the building, what with all the name changes and all (I fully expect to be working in the Inigo Montoya Memorial Library when things go back to normal). Ok, I've been there four years, but my work has meant people come to me, not the other way round.
So, I'm now in records-main. Because I have absolutely no work of my own to do. Because the others have no work of their own to do, and can easily take on the journals processing, photocopy requests, search requests, comb-binding, professional binding, journal circulation, collection maintenance, customer support and all the other things with absolutely no impact on their own work. Because I have done soooo much attaching and mail in the last few years. Because we won't get that much to do in the next month I'll be attaching.
Well, I'm making the best of it. I may have a narrower desk and no personal phone, but on the plus side... no personal phone! :D I also got to bring my own computer down (well, apart from the fact I would have refused to work on a sloooow Win2000 machine while my XP machine was sitting idle - still, woe betide anyone who so much as breathes on my desk *snikt*). Plus it means I didn't have to re-do all the settings. I also found out I can have music on while I work (another plus of having no phone ;)...)
Well, see what tomorrow brings, see if I can get my attaching rate up (wheee...) Yes, the attaching does need doing, but for cryin' out loud, how 'bout getting in another redeployee? Sure, they have to be trained, but all my knowledge is three years out of date, so I have to get loads of help too...
Instead, I'm minding my own business, when I get The Tap. Big Bossman says that due to various people on leave, sick, acting elsewhere or getting new jobs, the attaching and mail area is consistently down 2 FTE. To get to keep those FTE, they need someone there until all the sickies et al get back. Someone stable *cuts into own post to grin maniacally ;)* who won't be acting or working outside the department soon. In other words surprise! Interchangable Level One Library Guy has become Interchanged Level One Records Guy. My days are now to be spent attaching documents to files, with the occasional mail opening/mail delivery and pickup run. This'll be good - I can find maybe five places in the building, what with all the name changes and all (I fully expect to be working in the Inigo Montoya Memorial Library when things go back to normal). Ok, I've been there four years, but my work has meant people come to me, not the other way round.
So, I'm now in records-main. Because I have absolutely no work of my own to do. Because the others have no work of their own to do, and can easily take on the journals processing, photocopy requests, search requests, comb-binding, professional binding, journal circulation, collection maintenance, customer support and all the other things with absolutely no impact on their own work. Because I have done soooo much attaching and mail in the last few years. Because we won't get that much to do in the next month I'll be attaching.
Well, I'm making the best of it. I may have a narrower desk and no personal phone, but on the plus side... no personal phone! :D I also got to bring my own computer down (well, apart from the fact I would have refused to work on a sloooow Win2000 machine while my XP machine was sitting idle - still, woe betide anyone who so much as breathes on my desk *snikt*). Plus it means I didn't have to re-do all the settings. I also found out I can have music on while I work (another plus of having no phone ;)...)
Well, see what tomorrow brings, see if I can get my attaching rate up (wheee...) Yes, the attaching does need doing, but for cryin' out loud, how 'bout getting in another redeployee? Sure, they have to be trained, but all my knowledge is three years out of date, so I have to get loads of help too...
